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Hochberg, Gil. "Dystopias in the Kingdom of Israel: Prophetic Narratives of Destruction in Recent Hebrew Literature." Comparative Literature 72, no. 1 (2020): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7909950.

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Abstract This article is about a recent wave of literary dystopias published in Israel, most of which center on the soon-to-come destruction of the Jewish state. Notable among these are The Third (Ha-shlishi) by Yishai Sarid (2015), Mud (Tit) by Dror Burstein (2016), and Nuntia (Kfor) by Shimon Adaf (2010). These texts draw on biblical or Rabbinic Hebrew, Jewish sources, and Jewish historical events (specifically the destruction of the First and Second Temples), making them just as much about a dystopian past as they are about a dystopian future. They are, in other words, dystopias of a circul

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Shor, Francis. "Guns and Gender Roles in Dystopian Settings." Utopian Studies 33, no. 1 (2022): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.33.1.0076.

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ABSTRACT Dystopian settings are often dominated by fear and despair. As instruments and symbols of fear, guns, especially deployed in gendered ways, reinforce the dystopian setting. This article explores how guns and gender roles are represented in three dystopian novels (The Turner Diaries, The Road, and Parable of the Sower) and three dystopian films (Zardoz, The Terminator, and The Road). Examining how phallocentric aggression and toxic masculinity shape how guns are wielded by a number of characters in several of these films and novels, the article also suggests how critical dystopias offe

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Bakker, Barbara. "Egyptian Dystopias of the 21st Century." Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 21 (October 23, 2021): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jais.9151.

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During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on the Arabic literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers. However, what characterises/marks a work as a dystopia? This paper investigates the dystopian nature of a selection of Egyptian literary works within the frame of the dystopian narrative tradition. The article begins by introducing the features of the traditional literary dystopias as they will be used in the analysis. It then gives a brief overview of the development of the genre in the A

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Amelina, Anna V. "Theoretical Aspect of Studying the Literary Utopias and Dystopias of the First Decades of the 20th Century (on the Genre Identification Problem)." Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts 25, no. 4 (2023): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.4.061.

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This article examines the theoretical problems of studying literary utopias and dystopias. Since utopia and dystopia exist far beyond fiction, it is proposed to approach the analysis of a literary work as a particular case of the manifestation of a universal model of utopian/dystopian consciousness. First, in the texts under consideration, their elements should be identified with the support of research in social philosophy — the structure of utopian consciousness is outlined in the article, and the structure of dystopian consciousness is derived by the author of the article by analogy. If a w

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Marco, Malvestio. "Theorizing Eco-Dystopia: Science Fiction, the Anthropocene, and the Limits of Catastrophic Imagery." European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes 5, no. 1 (2022): 24–38. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14532.

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This essay considers a peculiar kind of science-fictional writing with environmental concerns that pivots on the imagery of catastrophe and blends the dystopian and the post-apocalyptic traditions. This sub-genre is known as eco-dystopia, which, I argue, merges the catastrophic imagery of the post-apocalyptic tradition with the consequential mode of dystopia. Eco-dystopias rely on the imagery of catastrophe to warn the public about the dangers and the consequences of the Anthropocene. However, such imagery presents strong limitations when used to dramatize and conceptualize the Anthropocene, a

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Baccolini, Raffaella. "Recovering Hope in Darkness: The Role of Gender in Dystopian Narratives." Revista X 17, no. 4 (2022): 1224. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/rvx.v17i4.87033.

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My aim is to comment on dystopia based on an approach that has foregrounded, from its very beginning, issues of writing in their intersection with gender and the deconstruction of high and low culture. In the first part of the article, I carry out a reflection on the genre of dystopia, how it has changed, its constituent elements and their transformations, with a look in particular to its gender dimension, its formal and thematic features, as well as to its modes of articulating horizons of hope. In the second part, I discuss dystopian conventions and developments, drawing from Lyman Sargent’s

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K, Pappitha. "Dystopian Visions: A Critical Examination of Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale and Cormac Mccarthy’s The Road." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 12, S3-Jan (2025): 45–51. https://doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v12is3-jan.8837.

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Literature is the total of preserved writings belonging to a given language or people. It is a product of life and about life. It uses language as a medium. A dystopia is an imaginary society or community characterized by undesirable, frightening, and often oppressive conditions in a totalitarian society. Dystopian literature is a genre of fiction that enables authors to examine the consequences of human decisions, social and politicalpatterns, and technological processes. It characterizes a society plagued with suffering, poverty, or oppression. Dystopias are extremely flawed societies. In th

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Vrbančić, Mario. "The Future of Dystopia." Politička misao 59, no. 4 (2022): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.20901/pm.59.4.02.

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Dystopia, just as utopia, has always been immersed in political visions: utopia ‎as an ideal society and dystopia as its opposite: ‘bad place’ – a futuristic, usually ‎very near future, an imagined universe in which oppressive social control ‎rules. However, utopia and dystopia cannot be absolutely separated, there is‎ a constant threat of replacing good place by bad place, very often leading to‎ the conclusion that every utopia either leads to dystopia or already is dystopia.‎ Today, it often seems that the dystopian future has already arrived, the reality ‎itself evokes dystopian imagination

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Malyshev, V. B. "Semantics of absurdity on the metaphysical clock of dystopia: Russian intentions." Aspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya 22, no. 3 (2022): 64–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.55531/2072-2354.2022.22.3.64-67.

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The problem of absurdity is a multidimensional problem of philosophical anthropology, it raises the question of the postmodern man, about the existence of man in the world of dystopia. Through the semantics of absurdity, it becomes possible to consider the problems of aesthetic, epistemological, cultural properties in the context of posing a fundamental question about a person, about a person in principle. Aim to correlate the semantics of absurdity and the concept of a metaphysical clock. Absurdity is regarded as the destruction of the ideal architectonics of the metaphysical clock of d

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Stillman, Peter G. "Dystopian Visions and Utopian Anticipations: Terry Bisson’s Pirates of the Universe as Critical Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies 28, Part 3 (2001): 365–82. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.28.3.0365.

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This article examines the interplay of dystopian and utopian themes in Terry Bisson’s Pirates of the Universe, utilizing Tom Moylan’s concept of “critical dystopia.” In the novel, Bisson maps out a number of discontinuous dystopias in a near-future US marked by rampant capitalist enterprise, out-of-control bio-technology, ecological decay, and a weak central state. These dystopias generally produce citizens with fragmented personal experiences, disinterest in social issues, and limited aspirations. Towards the end of the novel, when free and clean energy becomes available to all, Bisson explor

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Dubakov, Leonid, and Yuting Li. "The poem «Terkin in the Next World» by A. Tvardovsky and the story «Notes from the Spirit World» by Zhang Tian-yi: a dystopian mortal mirror of the political regime." Филология: научные исследования, no. 9 (September 2023): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2023.9.40914.

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Russian and Chinese dystopias have similarities and differences in their genesis. The proximity of the dystopian texts of the two cultures is due to parallel historical and social processes, which are reflected in the plots of the corresponding works. The difference is manifested in the accents that both literature puts. In particular, we can say that there is no Chinese dystopia in the Western and Russian understanding: China sees dystopia more as fiction and satire. Despite this, Russian and Chinese dystopias have similar features. The purpose of this article is to analyze the ideological, p

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Mutiah, Tuty, Dhefine Armelsa, Faqihar Risyan, and Agung Raharjo. "DISTOPIA KONDISI LIBERALISME DALAM FILM TIGA (Studi Semiotika Roland Barthes Tentang Distopia Liberalisme di Jakarta dalam Film Tiga)." Cakrawala - Jurnal Humaniora 19, no. 2 (2019): 225–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.31294/jc.v19i2.5633.

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Dystopia in Film Tiga Liberalism Conditions (Roland Barthes Semiotics Studies about Dystopia on Liberalism in Jakarta in Film Tiga). This study goals is to determine the meaning of dystopian condition of Jakarta in the Film Tiga through the sign, signifier and signified. Three films is a film that adopts Liberal describe the depravity of Jakarta twenty years in the future in 2036. The method used semiotic analysis of Roland 2 Bartes.The object of research is the Film Tiga were directed by Anggy Umbara and classified through five objects dystopia condition of Jakarta, dystopian condition of the

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Nankov, Nikita. "Of the Dystopian-Utopian and the Genre of Dystopia-Utopia." Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum 10 (2024): 22–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.60056/ccl.2024.10.22-44.

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The essay presents two ideas. First, the philosophical-aesthetic category of the dystopian-utopian is the basis of the literary-philosophical genre of dystopia-utopia in classical socio-political works. And second, it outlines some features of the genres dystopia-utopia and dystopia. The first idea is derived from European critical philosophy. The second is based on Plato, mostlyontheRepublic, a work that serves as a starting point for the analysis ofthedystopia-utopia and dystopia genres. Classical and more recent works, some of which have not been examined as dystopia-utopia, illustrate thes

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Pak, Sunghee. "Dystopia in Disguise: Disintegrated Societies in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest and Lights Out." CEA Critic 85, no. 2 (2023): 153–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cea.2023.a901809.

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Abstract: The two worlds created by Padmanabhan have further significance in that they demonstrate how dystopia is embedded in reality, making it more relevant to the contemporary audience. Harvest sets itself up as a fictional dystopia while keeping enough reality for the contemporaries to recognize; Lights Out , on the contrary, begins as a realistic drawing room drama that initiates itself from a social incident, but reaches out to include dystopian qualities bad enough for the audience to want to deny its practicality. … Although by definition neither utopia nor dystopia can exist, Padmana

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Lanin, Boris. "Some New Terms in Dystopian Studies." Caietele Echinox 46 (June 1, 2024): 275–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2024.46.21.

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This article brings two terms of political sciences, “state of exception” and “clash of civilizations” to dystopian studies. These terms help us to understand the hybrid nature of the dystopian genre. Almost in every Russian postcommunist dystopia we meet various kinds of state of exception. The concept of “clash of civilizations” convincingly describes many aspects of Slavic-Muslim dialogue in Russian dystopia. Russian military invasion of Ukraine had been predicted in dystopian novels the decades before it happened. The prophetic nature of the dystopian genre dictates the necessity of new an

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Shaheen, Muhammad Mahmood Ahmad, and Sohail Ahmad Saeed. "A Dystopian View of Postmodern Culture and Corporate Hegemony in Max Barry’s Jennifer Government." Global Regional Review IV, no. II (2019): 106–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-ii).12.

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This paper offers a dystopian view of postmodern culture and corporate hegemony to foreground the effects of late capitalism on human and society. The paper interprets Max Barrys Jennifer Government in the light of Frederic Jameson and Tom Moylans theories of postmodern culture and dystopia, respectively. For Jameson, postmodern culture is characterized by commodification of society, general depthlessness, simulacrum, and death of subjectivity. Similarly, Moylan considers dystopia an index of the systemic ills of late capitalism. The corporate hegemony enacts a socioeconomic hegemonic enclosur

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MERKOULOVA, I. G. "IMAGES OF LITERARY DYSTOPIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOTMAN’S SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE." Lomonosov Journal of Philology, no. 6, 2023 (December 17, 2023): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu0130-0075-9-2023-47-06-12.

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Dystopian images: myth or reality? How to understand the risks in the field of progress from the perspective of semiotics of culture? In the article we propose a semiotic approach to the ethics of the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence products in a literary context. The literary dystopia of the early 21st century is built on the principle of “feeling for the future” (Shklovsky) and at the same time “taking a closer look at similar events in the past” (Lotman). From the point of view of semiotics, a person in a dystopia is an image of a “thinking reed”: the ability to inno

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Saund, Gurpreet S., and Kulandai Samy. "Eco-critical dystopia and anthropocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake." Scientific Temper 14, no. 03 (2023): 741–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.58414/scientifictemper.2023.14.3.26.

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Geopolitical anxieties entangled and emerged with the anthropocene, creating a collective imaginary of critical eco-dystopia in a fictive way. The imaginings of apocalypse evade the entire human civilization with its natural habitat, deluging the corpses to be laid onto the death-stricken bed of the world. Drawings on sight provide an anthropocentrism-critical approach toward the textual interpretation in general. This research article decontextualizes critical dystopian fiction and predicts the reality of biotechnology advances in Oryx and Crake. It expands on the eco-critical dystopian world

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Revutska ., S. K., and L. M. Barlit. "SIGNS OF DYSTOPIAS IN J. ORWELL'S "1984" AND O. HUXLEY'S "BRAVE NEW WORLD"." INTELLIGENCE. PERSONALITY. CIVILIZATION, no. 1 (28) (July 21, 2024): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.33274/2079-4835-2024-28-1-51-57.

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Objective. The objective of the article is to outline the main features of dystopia in the works of J. Orwell "1984" and O. Huxley "Brave New World". Methods. The main scientific results are obtained by means of a component analysis of the novels "Brave New World" by O. Huxley and "1984" by J. Orwell. The main attention is paid to the common dominant features of dystopias. Results. In recent years the phenomenon of dystopia has become increasingly relevant not only in literary studies, but in other humanities and art as well. The dystopian novels "Brave New World" and "1984" are repeatedly men

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AKKOYUN, Tülay. "EKOLOJİK TEHLİKE ÇIĞLIĞI: ERNEST CALLENBACH’IN ‘EKOTOPYA’ ve OYA BAYDAR’IN ‘KÖPEKLİ ÇOCUKLAR GECESİ’." SOCIAL SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL 7, no. 33 (2022): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.31567/ssd.703.

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The first known Ecological Utopia novel was written by Ernest Callenbach in 1975 in America. Ecological Dystopia, on the other hand, has already taken its place in many dystopian works, even if it had not been named yet, as dystopia takes the future as its subject. In dystopian fiction, since the problems that are and can be experienced in a country or in the world are discussed, the dystopian writer expresses the negativities that may be experienced in the future based on his/her own geography. Ecological dystopia writers make predictions about how environmental pollution, forest fires, natur

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Ginszt, Katarzyna. "Fincher’s 'Fight Club' as an example of a critical dystopia." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 15/3 (December 17, 2018): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2018.3.03.

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This article investigates David Fincher’s film Fight Club as a critical dystopian narrative. The first part of the article provides the definition of critical dystopia as well as it presents characteristic features of the subgenre. It also sets forward the difference between classical and critical dystopias. The following sections are case studies in which different elements of the film in the context of the subgenre are examined. They focus on the construction of a dystopian society and the negative influence of consumerism on the protagonist and therefore on other people. Moreover, this pape

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Yelmen, Fevziye. "Distopies in today’s ceramic art: The example of EFE Turkel’s ‘Magna mater series ’." Global Journal of Arts Education 11, no. 1 (2021): 117–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjae.v11i1.5729.

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In this study, ceramic artist EFE Turkel’s ‘Magna Mater’ series will be analysed using the phenomenological method in the context of the concept of dystopia. Whether there is a spatial belonging to utopia is a phenomenon that has been debated by philosophers. In other words, the question of whether utopia is a place to live is part of these discussions. On the other hand, with utopia, there is also the concept of dystopia, which is handled with an almost dialectical approach, spatialised as an inhabitable and impossible place. The concept of dystopia, used by John Stuart Mill in 1868, was enco

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Deaconu (Ticărău), Iulia. "Pe urmele lui Swift: George Orwell și satira secolului al XX-lea." Comunicare interculturală și literatură 27, no. 1 (2022): 107–15. https://doi.org/10.35219/cil.2020.1.11.

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In this article we aim to discuss an evolution of dystopia from Jonathan Swift to George Orwell. Although dystopia flourished in the twentieth century, there are works in which dystopian accents can be found long before. We are talking about the 18th century, when Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal. Two centuries later George Orwell writes Animal Farm, a utopia between fable and satire, which eventually will turn to be a dystopia. Therefore, an important aspect of this study will be to point out Swift's influence on Orwell's Animal Farm.

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Andreichykova, Olena A. "THE MOTIVE OF CATASTROPHISM IN THE DYSTOPIAN GENRE POETICS: KAZUO ISHIGURO AND YAROSLAV MELNIK." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 24 (2022): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2022-2-24-3.

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The article examines the concept of catastrophe as an art theme, which is extremely relevant in our time and is also marked by the entropy features. We can confirm that this phenomenon grows and affects many spheres of human life, both external (global, social) and internal (psychological). The author of the article focuses on how modern dystopia reflects an awareness of a catastrophe, which is happening or has already happened. We have analyzed two novels from this point of view: “Masha, or the Fourth Reich” by the French writer of Ukrainian origin Yaroslav Melnyk and “Never Let me Go” by the

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Scotti, Nathani dos Reis, and Marcelo Fernando de Lima. "Mulheres distópicas: representações femininas em Nós e Jogos vorazes." Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture 46, no. 2 (2024): e70228. http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v46i2.70228.

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This paper aims to compare the representations of women in the novels We, by Yevgeny Zamiátin, and The hunger games, by Suzanne Collins, to examine how women are represented in dystopian literature and whether there are significant changes in these representations in the 20th and 21st centuries and how they influence the construction of the dystopian novel. The study was based on feminist and cultural theories, which helped to understand the processes of oppression and resistance present in the characters O-90 and I-330 in Zamiátin's novel and Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' narrative. Th

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Andreichykova, O. A. "PROBLEMS AND CLASSIFICATION OF MODERN DYSTOPIA (Ukrainian and World Literature)." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 2(51) (December 19, 2023): 4–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2023.2(51).296816.

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The article examines the specific features of modern dystopia, the themes and issues of the genre. The object of research is modern dystopian novels of the World and Ukrainian literature. In contrast to the 20th century, the concepts of critical, feminist, digital, national (in the context of multiculturalism) dystopia were included in the literary circulation of dystopia researchers of the 21st century. Specific groups and their genre subspecies are distinguished. The article also notes that the relevance of dystopia is primarily related to socio-cultural and geopolitical catastrophes and des

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Popova, S., and V. Bilokon. "DYSTOPIAN VISION OF 2052 IN HENLEY’S “SIGNATURE”." Studia Philologica 2, no. 17 (2021): 86–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2021.1711.

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Modern drama tends to catch up with the representation of the dystopian alternative worlds much like the contemporary mass culture. Sci-fi and dystopian productions become popular onstage because the medical and technological breakthroughs occur so rapidly in our present-day life that the humanity fails to reflect them properly. There are the following main features pertaining to science fiction in drama, namely dystopian play: fantastical concepts in tune with the modern scientific theory; the illusion of authenticity via scientific methodology; creation of a fictional world on the basis of t

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Buividavičiūtė, Lina. "Elements of Dystopian Fiction in the Modern Lithuanian Prose." Respectus Philologicus 28, no. 33A (2015): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2015.28.33a.5.

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The theoretical problems and practical analysis of utopia and its subgenre dystopia are widely known in the global cultural discourse. Nevertheless, these analyses still remains almost terra incognita in the studies of Lithuanian prose. The aim of this article is to analyse and compare the ambivalent elements in these novels: Vilniaus pokeris (Vilnius Poker) by R. Gavelis, Užkeiktas miestas (The Town under the Spell) by R. Lankauskas, and Anapus rytojaus (Beyond Tomorrow) by J. Jankus. This article is based on the hermeneutical methodology and the context of existentialism. The theoretical par

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Prudius, Irina G. "Features of Dystopia in P. Christen and S. Verdier’s Graphic Novel Orwell." Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts 25, no. 4 (2023): 136–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.4.065.

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This article analyses the graphic novel Orwell (2019) by French authors Pierre Christin and Sebastian Verdier from the point of view of its genre affiliation, i.e. a dystopia. The author aims to reveal the dystopian characteristics of the texts of this genre in the twentieth century and their transformation in the texts of the early twenty-first century. The author of the article presents an analysis of the graphic novel which examines the history, life, and conditionality of the life position of the writer George Orwell in relation to the reality of his most famous novel, 1984 (1948). In acco

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Atasoy, Emrah, and Akkoyun Burcu Kayışcı. "Distopik Yazında Umudun Yolculuğu." Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 3 (October 31, 2022): 11–27. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7221182.

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The Journey of Hope in Dystopian Fiction Öz Ütopya temsilleri ve ütopyacı düşünce, tüm çağ ve kültürlerde insanlığın umut ve özlemlerinin sembolü olmuştur. Distopik anlatılar ise içinde bulunulan tarihsel bağlama dair kaygı ve korkuları geleceğe yansıtarak kâbusvari senaryolar ürettiklerinden genellikle umutla ilişkilendirilmezler. Ancak karanlık dünyaları tasvir ediyorlar diye tüm distopyaların umuttan yoksun olduğunu iddia etmek yanıltıcıdır. Çoğu distopya, ütopik dürtüyü ve umudu

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Al-Mamori, Yasir Khudeir Obid. "Dystopia, post-apocalypse and cinematic reading." Философия и культура, no. 4 (April 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2022.4.37808.

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The subject of the study is the study of such a specific genre as dystopia, which is the dominant form of society in post-apocalyptic worlds. The object of the study is dystopia and post-apocalypse in cinema, as well as their features in modern realities. In the course of the research, special attention is paid to the study of the substantive essence of such definitions as "dystopia", "apocalypse" and "post-apocalypse". Special emphasis is placed on the fundamental difference and differences between apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic events. Special attention is also paid to the reasons and fact

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Darshana, Tinkhede-Pachkawade, and Bhise Dr.Alka. "Portrayal of Dystopian Society and Brati as a Dystopian Protagonist in Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084." Portrayal of Dystopian Society and Brati as a Dystopian Protagonist in Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084 6, no. 5 (2024): 94–102. https://doi.org/10.47311/IJOES.2024.6.5.102.

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The concept of Utopia deals with the ideal perfect state with completely contentcitizens, whereas Dystopia portrays the complete opposite. In Dystopia, the peoplelead a wretched life due to tyrannical governments, environmental disasters, anddehumanization. They are constantly under surveillance and controlled withoppression and terror by the authorities. Though Dystopia is an imaginary concept,many oppressive traits are visible in the existing society, where citizens faceexcessive control of authority that curbs their freedom. Mahasweta Devi, a renownedwriter and social activist, in her water

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Resheq, Reem. "Critical Dystopia: Local Narrative in the Threshold in Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 19, no. 1 (2019): 175–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.19.1.10.

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This study is an exploration of critical dystopia within a postmodern context. Literary and historical viewpoints associate dystopia with the failed utopia of twentieth-century totalitarianism manifested in regimes of extreme coercion, inequality, and slavery. Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan, of whose perspective this study makes use, theorize that critical dystopia provides a potential for change through rejecting the traditional dystopian ending marked by the subjugation of the individual. Problematizing critical dystopia further, the study proposes that the critical orientation of this s

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Pennell, Beverley. "Allan Baillie’s Secrets of Walden Rising as Critical Dystopia: Problematising National Mythologies." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 15, no. 2 (2015): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no2art1248.

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In lieu of abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article: Allan Baillie’s Secrets of Walden Rising (1996) is a novel about ‘the politics of history’ (Fernandez 2001, p. 42) and an examination of the text’s significant challenges to the dominant historical stories of its time seems appropriate as Australia’s ‘history wars’ continue. In this paper I examine the critical dystopian strategies employed in Secrets of Walden Rising to subvert some of the utopian national mythologies of white settler Australia. Baccolini (2003 p.115) argues that critical dystopias tend to be ‘immediately rooted

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Ketterer, David. "Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: A Contextual Dystopia." Science Fiction Studies 16, Part 2 (1989): 209–17. https://doi.org/10.1525/sfs.16.2.209.

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Of particular interest in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)—to date the best English Canadian SF novel—are the series of ritual events, the symbolism of the oval hallway mirror, and its generic status as a particular kind of what is termed a “Contextual Dystopia.” This kind is distinguished from the traditional dystopia by virtue of both its consideration of the discontinuous historical circumstances (unanticipated within the dystopian discourse) which succeeded the dystopian regime, and of the judiciously balanced interpretative consequences of that consideration. Mary McCarthy’s n

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Sharma, Khum Prasad. "Fragments of Dystopia: Exploring The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer." Nepal Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 8, no. 1 (2025): 61–70. https://doi.org/10.3126/njmr.v8i1.76294.

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Background: The dystopian novel has evolved as a critical literary genre, reflecting societal anxieties about industrialization, authoritarianism, and global inequities. Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001), while not explicitly dystopian, contains fragments of dystopian thought, exploring themes of migration, identity, and systemic inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. The novel’s portrayal of alienation, socio-economic divides, and existential uncertainty aligns with dystopian motifs, offering a critique of global power structures and neoliberal systems. This study positions The Pickup w

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Demenko, P. "EVOLUTION OF THE DYSTOPIAN GENRE." Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, no. 1(52) (June 25, 2024): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4604.2024.1(52).310307.

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The article examines the stages of the formation of the genre of dystopia in the context of the world literary process. Dysutopia, which is a model of forecasting the future, reacts particularly acutely to the problems and challenges of modernity, projecting them onto imaginary societies of the future. Thanks to this, it gains special popularity in modern literary discourse, attracts the attention of more and more readers. As a result of the analysis, three stages of the development of the genre were established. The first stage covers the first half of the 20th century and is characterized by

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Poleganov, Vladimir. "Variations on the Dystopian: William James, Ursula Le Guin, and Bernard Wolfe." Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum 10 (2024): 45–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.60056/ccl.2024.10.45-54.

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For over a centurynow, dystopian visions of the future have been an integral part of the strategies through which literature reacts to changes in the world. However, dystopia is not always an entirely new world. Sometimes, it is an element in a world born from a utopian impulse. The article explores the variations of the dystopianin two such worlds influenced by the works of William James: Bernard Wolfe's Limboand in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. The analysis adopts the concept of dystopia as utopia’s shadow, and traces the moments when the world, the body, and the la

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Xu, Yuan, and Yanfang Song. "THE DREAD OF AI REPLACEMENT OF HUMANS REPRESENTED IN MACHINES LIKE ME." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 61, no. 2 (2022): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v61i2.630.

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The rapid progress of AI technology prompts British novelists to speculate what a technologically advanced Britain will be like: a utopia or a dystopia? Or somewhere in between? Ian McEwan shows his concern over these questions in Machines Like Me (2019). It is suggested that this novel mainly reveals people’s technophobia and presents a techno-dystopian world, for which many people are ill-prepared. Technophobia and techno-dystopia represented in the selected novel echo the debates among the Neo-Luddites, especially the thoughts of Stephen L. Talbott. From the theoretical angle of Neo-Luddism

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Su, Ping, Mingwen Xiao, and Xianlong Zhu. "Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture." Island Studies Journal 17, no. 2 (2022): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.392.

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The trope of the utopian island occurs in a variety of cultural traditions. For example, in the West, the literary imagination of ideal islandness made manifest an imperialist rhetoric and contributed to European exploration and colonization. The tension between utopia and dystopia is an intrinsic feature of Western utopian island imaginations, which were complicit in colonial exploitation and oppression. Western models of island utopias and dystopias have been imposed on non-Western cultures, whose scholars have engaged in decolonial practices by adapting, reshaping, and transforming these co

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Stepanova, Anna A., and Inna I. Zhukovych. "“THE HANDMAID’S TALE” BY MARGARET ATWOOD AS A POSTMODERN NOVEL: DYSTOPIAN GENRE TRANSGRESSION IN POSTMODERN ERA." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 1, no. 27 (2024): 142–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2024-1-27-10.

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Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” seems to have been studied comprehensively and fundamentally. Aspects of the dystopian genre, its feminist and anti-religious orientation, and the novel’s connection with philosophical concepts of the 20th century have been studied in depth. In the poetics of the novel, researchers’ interest in the problems of intertextuality, the specifics of composition, etc., has never ceased. However, despite the variety of problems covered in these studies, in our opinion, a fundamental question about the significance of Margaret Atwood’s novel for the further

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Terentowicz-Fotyga, Urszula. "Defining the dystopian chronotope: Space, time and genre in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 15/3 (December 17, 2018): 9–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2018.3.01.

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The paper examines George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as a canonical example of the dystopian novel in an attempt to define the principal features of the dystopian chronotope. Following Mikhail Bakhtin, it treats the chronotope as the structural pivot of the narrative, which integrates and determines other aspects of the text. Dystopia, the paper argues, is a particularly appropriate genre to consider the structural role of the chronotope for two reasons. Firstly, due to utopianism’s special relation with space and secondly, due to the structural importance of world-building in the expressio

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Yosef-Paz, Netta Bar. "Hebrew Dystopias." Israel Studies Review 33, no. 2 (2018): 66–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/isr.2018.330205.

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This article examines contemporary Hebrew dystopic novels in which ecological issues play a critical role, reflecting an increasing preoccupation of Israeli culture and society with the environment. The literary turn to dystopia is not new, but whereas Israeli dystopias published in the 1980s–1990s focused mainly on military apocalyptic visions, current novels combine these national anxieties with ecological dangers, following present-day trends in American literature and cinema. These contemporary dystopias either conjoin a national crises with an ecological disaster as the source of the cata

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Adil Majidova, Ilaha. "The dystopian genre as one of Ray Bradbury’s creative trends." SCIENTIFIC WORK 61, no. 12 (2020): 87–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/61/87-90.

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Utopia is a common literary theme, especially in a speculative and science-fiction genre. Authors use utopian genre to explore what a perfect society would look like. Utopian fiction is set in a perfect world, while a dystopian novel drops its main character into a world where everything seems to have gone wrong. Dystopian fiction can challenge readers to think differently about current world. The article is devoted to the etymology of dystopia genre within Ray Bradbury’s creativity. In his short stories he tried to show the depth of his imagination. In Ray Bradbury’s fiction the world is a te

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Suhr, H. Cecilia. "Designing Audience Participation and Gamification in Intermedia Performance." International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology 12, no. 1 (2023): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.316966.

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“Humanity: From Survival to Revival” (“Dystopia to Utopia”) is a participatory survival game and audiovisual performance work that depicts the transformation of the dystopian state of humanity to utopianism in both the visual and sonic realms. Audience members are invited to participate in humanity's interactive survival games and to contribute their photographic facial outlines as visual content for the performance. This paper explores the theoretical framework behind designing audience participation and interaction by reflecting on the notion of dystopia as related to the COVID-19 pandemic,

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Harly, Natasha, and Liem Satya Limanta. "The Paradoxical World of Psycho-Pass Anime Series." K@ta Kita 9, no. 2 (2021): 158–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.9.2.158-166.

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Psycho-Pass is one of the most well-known examples of dystopian anime. The story is set in 22nd century Japan, where the country is ruled by the Sibyl System. The world is portrayed to be an ideal world that is seemingly crime-free, yet the world also contained many problems that offset how ideal it seemed. In this paper, we are concerned about how Psycho-Pass can be categorized as a paradoxical world. Therefore, we aim to show the ways that the world of Psycho-Pass is indeed paradoxical by using utopia and dystopia theories. Through our analysis, we found that elements of both utopia and dyst

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Yustiana, Salsabilla, and Alexander Nawangseto Mahendrapati. "IMAJINASI DISTOPIA SEBAGAI IDE PENCIPTAAN KARYA SENI GRAFIS." TEXTURE Art and Culture Journal 7, no. 2 (2024): 114–27. https://doi.org/10.33153/texture.v7i2.6161.

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Dystopia is a literary genre that tells a story of a place where everything is very bad. Dystopia has several characteristics such as dehumanization and totalitarianism. Dystopia provides another perspective in dealing with various social phenomena or problems. This is called defamiliarization so it is considered important to be raised into a work. The stages of the process of creating this Final Assignment work are based on David Campbell's creative method formulation, namely, 1.) Preparation, 2.) Concentration, 3.) Incubation, 4.) Illumination (AHA!), 5.) Verification/Production. The techniq

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Omar, Abdulfattah, and Maha Alanazi. "From Gilead to Syria: A Comparative Study of Patriarchal Oppression and Resistance in Margaret Atwood's “The Handmaid's Tale” and Nagham Haider’s “Winter Festivals”." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 7 (2023): 376. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n7p376.

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This paper examines the influence of Margaret Atwood's concept of feminist dystopia on Nagham Haider's Winter Festivals. The main objective of the research is to explore how Haider's literary works, specifically her Winter Festivals, reflect Atwood's feminist dystopian vision. The study adopts Atwood’s approach of feminist dystopia as represented in The Handmaid's Tale to explore themes of gender oppression, objection of the female body, government control, and patriarchal power structures. In her novel, Haider draws heavily from Atwood's feminist dystopian vision, particularly in her explorat

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Abdelbaky, Ashraf. "A Perfect World or an Oppressive World: A Critical Study of Utopia and Dystopia as Subgenres of Science Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 4, no. 3 (2016): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v4i3.1201.

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In this article, I investigates the concept of utopia and dystopia in literature since the time of Plato and Thomas More and how it became a significant subgenre of science fiction. I present the kinds of utopia and its fundamental purposes as well as the different explanations for the term utopia and dystopia by numerous critics. I stress the function of science fiction as a literary tool to depict the grim picture and the weaknesses of current societies, dystopias, and to provide a warning for the future of these societies by presenting alternative peaceful societies; utopias. Therefore, I s

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Stahr, Radka, and Anne Marlene Hastenplug. "With dark humor about a dark future." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 29, no. 1 (2020): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/fsp-2020-0005.

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Abstract This article analyses the relationship between black humor and dystopian literature. In dystopia, humor can appear on the surface as language or situational comics, but there is also a deeper link between these two literary phenomena: they confront the reader with an unexpected notion in order to bring him to a critical reflection. There are many dystopias in the Nordic literature that use comic elements. Three of them are discussed in this article: Axel Jensens Epp (1965), Lena Anderssons Duck City (2006) and Kaspar Colling Nielsens Den danske borgerkrig 2018–24 (2013). The analysis

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